Ha, One Reason, are you crazy? Everybody knows that a tin foil hat won't work. You need one made of carbon paper.
Probably not, or at least not in the way we all think we exist as free people. Anyway this is not new, human beings have tried to do this to other human beings from beginningless times without so much success (i mean indoctrinate a behaviour). Of course there was fear but from time to time there was also some kind of revolution that tried to change things (at least for a moment). But now i firmly believe that things are really different from the past. After the WW2 things changed radically in the so called 1rst world (2nd, 3rd, and so on still are in the past). Of course there have been some attempts of revolution (may'68) but nothing changed in fact (probably other revolutions along human history also have not). What i mean is that the voice in off in the video is talking some truth. Theres a real fear nowadays to loose this so called "welfare-society" in which we've lived since the end of WW2 and we've been indoctrinated somehow through all this years - media being the main source for that - to depend on it, physically as well as emotionally). Thanks to my job i meet many people daily, just to hear them to complain about the pressent situation (spain is in a real bad economical situation this days), but when you talk to them to go to demonstrate they say "this will do nothing, after all "they" do always what they want and us have to obey" ... that's true it's not my invention. Another example ... You have just to look here (and in its sister site) ... Few weeks ago when PIPA, SOPA acts were in the news, most of the people were afraid about what ? ... yes, just about downloads, nothing less, nothing more. Now, how many talked here or there about the possibility that those acts could mean (will mean eventually) a freedom of the speech being shut down ?. Or even, how many do think now that those acts have gone forever ?. Perhaps the voice in the video is right and we've been indoctrinated to have fear to loose the few things we still keep up from the already dead "welfare-society" ... "Do whatever you want but let me download anything i want" was the leitmotiv not so long ago, do you remember ? Videos like the one that Heisenberg has posted here should make us to think deeply on the present situation and enquire deep in ourselves if we all are or not 2nd-hand persons ... But of course, who wants to think nowadays, much less to think deeply, when the only think most of us are worried about is if we could download or not the last plug-in, dow, or whatever is posted in AudioZ (to name just one thing) ?. Thanks for listening! Kind Regards!
To those who this can be of interest: "We are connected globally, but our local relationships are becoming wafer thin and ephemeral. We are in danger of developing a society that is globally connected and collaborative, but one that is also impatient, isolated, and detached from reality. A society that has plenty of answers but very few good questions. A society composed of individuals who are unable to think by themselves in the real world. Future Minds (How the Digital Age is changing our minds) Richard Watson (2010)
